(THE CONVERSATION) At the end of Katsuhiro Otomo’s dystopian Japanese anime film “Akira,” a throbbing, white mass begins to envelop Neo-Tokyo. Eventually, its swirling winds engulf the ...

Akira is an acclaime­d Japanese manga series that was created by Katsuhiro Otomo. Originally published in Young Magazine­ from 1982 to 1990, it spanned six volumes. Otomo himself directed the ...

The creator of Akira has long been lauded for his attention to detail, so of course, Otomo is not one to blow through a project. Manga readers know this well because Otomo has been working on a ...

The finale of “Akira” is only one example of apocalyptic imagery in the anime and manga canon; a number of anime films and comics are rife with atomic bomb references, which appear in any ...